My Diablo 2 discord community. Hit that up :) discord.gg/8GXyu7A The results from 10k Lower Kurast Runs video (Give you an idea about LK farming) th-cam.com/video/vfzUMPtxQNw/w-d-xo.html
Hey, I liked this vid....but now i have a question....does any of this pertain to battlenet? And is LK even worth running on battlenet, specifically sparkly chests. Ive never seen one in LK before...
I recently got into playing pluggy was a big D2 newbie. Watching all these guides trying to see what I can do to optimize my runs/mfing and I just realized that I probably have to godliest LK map you can get. I got it on my 3rd roll or so too. Been extraordinarily lucky 4 Ohms and 1 Sur within less than a 1000 runs - probably about 500. Also found tyraels might :) All that within less than a week in - thanks for the videos - truly bringing a lot of joy and fantastic content that motivates ppl to get (back) into the game and "study" it a bit more too!
04:35 - he makes a mistake here which can confuse you: He says "to skip running the entire LOWER Kurast Dock" When in fact he means "to skip running the entire KURAST DOCKS", i.e. the town.
Thank you so much for this! I recently got back into Diablo 2 after about fifteen years and had no idea things like this could be done. Within a dozen attempts I got a layout in Hell with the two campfires right by the waypoint and I’m already finding runes far faster than I had been.
After about an hour of rolling for a decent LK map I got something amazing. Two campfires 1 Campfire is 1 Teleport. The other Campfire is 3 Teleports away. The 1st Campfire top right super chest is a Teleport away from the 2nd top left Campfire. About 16 Teleports per run.
I watched the video, but perhaps I just missed it: Why can you not just save and exit after opening the final chest in LK? That would respawn you at the Act 3 docks, right, then you could just waypoint back to LK? Why do you have to take the WP to Act 4 before saving/exiting? Edit: found my answer at 4:35
Thanks a bunch for this video. I have been playing on and off for nearly 20 years (before LOD expansion). Just started doing these runs on p7 a couple of days ago and already have Mal, 2 gul, vex, Lo, and sur. My map is godly, but I dont use a sorc. I have necro with 40 faster run walk. Run time about 1 min. Use pindle to raise skelly and just run it.
thanks for the amazing job man, im brazilian and been in d2lod a long time, did more than 300 runs last week and the best rune droped was a vex, aiming for the 1000s! thanks again, big fan!
I've been playing a lot of pluggy for the first time. I used this video to find a 10/10 two fire map. The two fires and way point are all beside each other. No Bers yet though.
I think a quick note about cheap 200 FCR sorc gear would help. Arachnid mesh can be hard to find, but you can get to 200 fcr with a crafted caster belt. Here's a sample set up. Weapon: Wizard Spike(so much res) / Suicide Branch; 50 FCR Gloves: Magefist / Trangs Gloves; 20 FCR Armor: Skin of the Vipermagi; 30 FCR Helm: 20 FCR circlet Rings: 10 fcr each That's 140 FCR base. Then, with good enough rolls, you can get 60 more with a combination of Spirit Shield, crafted caster amulet and caster belt. Boots are whatever. I like Aldur's boots because the fire res compliments the resistances of spirit nicely, the 40% FRW is a marginal speed boost for farming, and extra life is good because dying will really slow down the farming. Oh, and it is possible to get 200 FCR without spirit, but then Arachnid mesh is necessary. Just in case anyone is playing vanilla single player.
Been doing this using 2 computers and no plugy mod. Both computers use the same diablo install and play in single player mode. I use the "other multiplayer" "TCP / IP" options to mule. 1 computer hosts the mule game the other is the main account. I imagine I could 1/2 and half those roles on the 2 computers. 1 odd upside is the maps are all the same between mule sessions. So after run 1 of the maps, the paths to bosses are pre-mapped in the next sessions. "have to stick to the same mode though". The down side is of course, no use of ladder rune words, the improved stash, and other ladder play perks like bigger bosses. [paragraph below isn't about the "same map between games" mentioned above] Been reluctant to do the plugy gaming. Haven't seen any video posted by it's players extolling "safe files" for use. So I assume it's the risk of using the plugy mods. Certainly I've seen video's on get this here, install it like this. But haven't noted any of the videos saying. "I found safe files here", "I've never had an issue here", or similar quotes to the files being pointed at. Even better still would be a consensus by plugy players on where to get safe files. Any tips of that nature would be welcome from the host.
I WATCH ADS FOR DBRUNSKI!!! Ive never seen the actual rune patterns before so that is new information for me. No wonder Sur runes drop the most. I use my pally to run LK and i run the docks with vigor. I dont just search for runes, i pick up all charms, druid helms, rings and ammys. LK might be decent on BNET if you do them during baal runs. P8 count. you wont get realm down and you can get the last few waves and baal for XP. Another great video dude
If u have the time to pop everything in Lower Kurast on single player or battle.net i would do so most the high runes I get are not even from the super chests but come from stashes corpses etc same goes for charms jewels and occasionally gear that is of some value for example socketed or superior armors and weapons. but as stated in the video you can just focus on the super chests if you want to be way more efficient. As for me ill be making a sorceress this next ladder reset and will be farming lower kurast through too travincal for all the chests bodies stashes etc.
Did some math out of curiosity using this video and your 10k lower kurast runs video and got this for runs per rune: your runs vs calculated odds based on 63536 patterns and 6 chests per run: pul 17 =588 993 um 8 =1250 1214 mal 10 =1000 728 ist 5 =2000 1560 gul 10 =1000 993 vex 5 =2000 1821 ohm 4 =2500 2185 lo 2 =5000 5461 sur 6 =1667 993 ber 0 =n/a 3641 Real question is what are the odds you missed some runes because those huge chest drops are annoyingly large due to not being able to see all the drops at once and tons of piles of gold and potions. Like how many of those drop patterns for high runes are patterns that have enough items to hide the rune? You got a bit unlucky not finding any Ber runes and on number of Sur runes.
Your lk videos inspired me to spend some time doing them. I have done several hundred runs, was it worth it for me? YES. I found a sur, a gul, vex, ist, mal, um, lots of lems, and a few good set and unique items. I didn't know two campfires can spawn, first thing I will load some new maps until I find a double. I consider myself a pro d2 player. I play hc only, I've played for many years but I honestly have never been the type of player that pays mind to extreme detail, like looking for the perfect hell difficulty map or paying attention to specific stats or rolls, or basing my play time on efficiency ..im the kind of player that just plays if that makes sense. This time around I have stood firm in my personal goal to NOT cheat, it IS single player after all. Last year when I came back to d2 I ended up duping items, runes, copy and pasting game files to cheat. Using atma for much of it. But no more, and it's much better because I got bored quick last time around with cheat runes I made duping via atma. Now my items, atma-banked runes, and runewords are legit! It felt good to beat hell on hardcore legit, i did a lot of mf for the gear needed to do so every milestone i got to. I did normal mephy runs at first, then normal baal runs for gear to start nightmare (vipermagi !!) , then nm mephy where i found my occulus, ready to start hell! Then i spent a long while doing hell andy , countess, and mephy where i found some of my end game gear like shako until i was ready to finish hell.
I'm playing D2R SP (after months playing only in Bnet) and finally reached Lower Kurast in Hell with my sorc. I rolled the map a couple of times and find a good map there. Now the real HR farm begins! xD
Fantastic video, this taught me a lot :D I have never built a lategame runeword, so Im gonna have to try this to achieve my very first enigma and infinity :D
The first time I tried this I did about 1500 runs with nothing better than Gul. Then I accidentally selected nightmare and had to reset my map seed. With the new map I got 2 Sur within a few hours of playing. Maybe the map seed affects which drop patterns are available.
i know MF doesnt matter for runes, but does it matter for charms? you can get a lot of skillers grand charms on LK super chests.. and i know for a fact that gold find does work on those chests.. so my guess is that MF works for charms too, does anyone know? i feel like i get more charms with MF.. not sure tho
Pro tip, if you are running Plugy, get a loot filter, it really makes it easier to spot those runes as it filters out a lot of the useless items dropping from the chests. Dbrunski has a video about loot filters as well so go ahead 😁
A couple of questions, why is two campfires as must? Is it a must becuse of time saving or is it a must to get the runes? Second question, why do you go to the pandemonium fortress in act 4 after each run instead of save and exit?
2 camp fires means 6 super chests vs 3 super chests with one camp fire. Over the course of say 1000 runs that 6000 checks vs 3000. Helps improve your odds a lot. Additionally, going to act 4 saves you from running the entire Kurast dock every time you make a new game. Again saving you lots of time over the course of many many runs. Hope that helps explain
@@Dbrunski125 Ah ok thanks! I just got hooked on you saying "must" as u need two campfires to get good runes, but i see, its a question of effectiveness when farming. But u still have to teleport to the waypoint, go back and then exit game, start new. Have u measured and compared time to run from docks by exit directly after opening the last chest? I have 30% faster run/walk and i think just exiting right after is faster, but hey i could be wrong :). Great video anyway! But damn, getting low runes all the time on players 8 so far :(.
Amazing video. By the way, if you`re farming LK on a sorc, use telekinesis to open chests from the middle of the huts and to activate wps, it`s even faster.
What version is this based on? And can MF adversely effect drops? I understand probability don't guarantee drop rates, but I've done 600 runs and the highest rune I've come across is Lum. (1.14d, 146%MF). Video was crazy helpful to see though!
Do you do the /players 8 trick every time you make a new game on LK or just once and leave it like the trick you showed to switch it? I am farming it atm and using the trick but wanted to ensure I’m not waisting time by doing it each time?
M B I was testing it based on what was dropping from chests, which didn’t seem to be as much as it did when I typed /players 8 each time. Hence asking D, who runs this a lot. Thanks for the info and the snide comment.
As mentioned P1 is best for Countess runes, but just to elaborate since that's kind of counter-intuitive: the Countess's drop mechanics are specially coded to make her drop runes consistently like she does. This is unaffected by the /playersX command, but IIRC she's hardcoded to always drop two things, and /playersX does decrease her NoDrop chance for non-rune items. But you want her NoDrop chance to be high, because if she hits NoDrop she'll drop two runes. Lower NoDrop on the Countess = more non-rune options for the game to waste those two drops on. I'm probably mistaken on some of the particulars here, so someone more knowledgeable about the game's code please feel free to correct me, but that's at least a quasi-explanation for why it's best to run the Countess on /P1 if you're farming runes :)
Does this apply to series x. Because I been doing this run for months and haven't gotten a hight rune from them. I normally farm them for gems and charms
I watched this video a few times over the last few years to keep me inspired when LK starts dragging. I play Super Casually (this isn't my main game, or even my secondary game) but my PLUGY is finally coming together for me. Guess I just wanted to say thanks, and for any disheartened farmers lurking out there, just remember: Dreams do come true.
There's one single player specific quirk to LK runs: loot tables seem to be connected to map seed. I noticed armor and weapon racks kept giving me same 4-5 item bases. So I turned on rerolling maps every game until I got white monarch from one armor rack and then I turned rerolling off. And since that I got Monarchs regularly. Quick google confirmed that.
@@The_Aleph_Null I don't think so. If you notice, the chest always drop all blue or all yellow. The way this is rolled is independent of MF, I believe, and uniques can't drop from super chests.
@@dpranav42 I think the chests were discovered on 1.13, but the rune drops get a lot friendlier on 1.14. If you want to hunt high runes, it might be worth the upgrade (though I think that some mods, like PlugY, might be incompatible with 1.14).
Great info! I'm about 100 runs in! It's fun so far, I have an armor rack that consistently drops pally shields, I've gotten a couple decent high res ones, but mostly 8 res all. Another drops a shako like a quarter of the time, so I got like 300 mf to try and drop Harley! I'd re-roll if it weren't for that one shako rack, but it's a decent map so I'll stick it out for a few days I think.
just type /players x with x=1 to 8, know that this works in pairs for drop rate, so players 1 and players 2 will be the same, 3 and 4 are the same, 5 and 6 are the same, and 7 and 8 are the same
Hey Dbrunski! Any chance we could get a bnet LK guide? I'm farming it on players 1, with trav. I need a ber rune! I just found an um from a LK super chest, but I dont know how much luck I will have with finding 2 sur's. Do you know how many vex+ patterns there are in a player 1 game?
In my honest opinion and personal experience: Indeed this is the fasted area to farm high runes, as far as, you play on players 7 or 8, you run very fast on main super chests and sorounding camp fire chests and is important not to loose time by fighting as this seems to lower the drop chances. For me best high runes where droped from surounding smaller chests, tree logs, etc.
My question maybe stupid, but: If I enter LK on p1, clear area and then set p7, will chest patterns be set to p7 as well? I'm asking because enemies are not instantly boosted by p8 and I don't remember higher rune being dropped from chests than Pul. And I'm something above noob seeing how much do you know about D2.
can you share where you get the drop rates? its so hard to find full games on b net now.. i need to know drop rates of just solo farming, please? can you let me know?
Do I understand this correctly? Having a total of 65536 Set Pattern, 4 of which containing Lo Runes basically means that I have 4 in 65536 Chance of getting a Lo Rune every time I open up one of the Super Chests, right? A run consists of 6 super chests, which means that the odds of getting at least one Lo Rune in a single run is roughly 0,036%. This means that I'd have a 90% chance to get at least one Lo Rune within the first 6222 runs. One run takes around 30-35 Seconds...Which means on average I should get at least one Lo Rune after 60,5 hours. Fuck.
Really dumb question, but if I do these LK runs on Normal difficulty will I still have a chance to drop mid-high runes or will I mostly expect like ral runes and such?
I just rolled a pretty sick Lower Kurast map on the 2nd try, 2 campfires very close to the town portal. One is right next to it and the other one is almost as close.
I HAVE A QUESTION, Why do you play single player v.1.13 and not bnet. I like single player to, but I feel online when you get high level you have other options like PVP or farming etc. Give me a detailed answer please sir.
My brother and i are playing on single player with players 8 on, we arent getting anything higher then a lem, we have good maps with two campfires close, is there anything we could be missing?
DB what is the "orange flash" that you speak of? I always waste too much time due to paranoia of not seeing all the drops, would be tremendously helpful if you could elaborate. Thanks!
Why not loot every single chest/rock etc in LK? i just did a couple of hours of farming there and found nothing in the superchests but 1 pul and mal rune from normal chests.
Great Video! Even some things i didn´t know like the patterns. Maybe include little tips in there e.G. "get enought keys beforehand" I think those small tipps are what can make the diffrence in a video. great Video overall and I will farm some myself now.
Do u think higher MF increases the chance to get the loot pattern where only rare items drop? I find it to be worthless when only rares drops from the chest, since it cant contain any charms. Not sure if it can still contain any runes, but so far i havent gotten any runes when it only drops rares Edit: Charms do drop aswell when rare (yellow) items drop. It just seems to be super super rare. After about 1k runs total, I got my first charm when rares dropped lol
Don't think there is one in the same way as in single player. There are a number of lvl 85 areas (Dbrunski has another video on that), and that's where you can theoretically get "everything". So the strategy in multiplayer is, I think, to create a game, clear all those areas, and then create a new game. Lower Kurast is probably not one of those areas, since you can't manually change the players X setting.
as long as your on plugy if you dont change difficulty your map layout remains the same. so just choose normal or nm then back to hell to re roll a new map layout.
false. When you pop a chest or kill a monster the game first checks if its a rune drop. If this fails then the game checks for items. Then MF is applied. Therefore MF does not affect rune drops at all.
i have a question i hope you Can answer for me. How Can i optimize my LK runs with all the loot cluster from the super chests. I find its taking me a lot of time to click through all that gold when a chest pops with tons of loot, just to make sure i dont miss Any Runes. Got any tips?
what if i play online? it's impossible to du 100 non stop run with 5/8 players. Is it worth doing it alone? in 20 runs i got 13 runes and the best one was DOL
I used to play single player but once by mistake I clicked battle net. After that my game graphics have changed and game has become really slow in single player mode. Any solutions ?
I guess you downloaded the newest patch. You can go to the options in game and change the detail settings if your game runs too slow (which it shouldn't, unless your pc is from the early 2000s)
Im running on the xbox one and im dissappointed long load times, and when i hit the chests the loot takes a few seconds to load in which can result in monsters flooding in blocking my view :( i can be on the loading screen and my character can be fully loaded and monsters get cheap hits on me mainly duriel) why is it my parents old dial up dino computer ran like a champ compared to modern day 🤣
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The results from 10k Lower Kurast Runs video (Give you an idea about LK farming)
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Dbrunski do I have to keep typing /players 8 every time I want that difficulty when starting a new lower Kurast run
Jason Gondola nope. Not unless you close all of d2. Not for refreshing the game over and over again.
Does character lvl matter
Dude, when are you gonna read us the Grinch, it's almost Christmas! Dbrunski Storytime, I'm telling you!
Hey, I liked this vid....but now i have a question....does any of this pertain to battlenet? And is LK even worth running on battlenet, specifically sparkly chests. Ive never seen one in LK before...
20 years later and I'm learning and re'learning things about this masterpiece of a game :)
Right? I never knew you could bug Andariel and Duriel, increasing the quality of their drops. Found that out LAST WEEK! Wat.
amen brother
Tho andy and dury bug only limited to sp only,
Necro comment, just started playing again!Love Diablo 2!!!
@@gavyndickerson6203 wait, what?
I recently got into playing pluggy was a big D2 newbie. Watching all these guides trying to see what I can do to optimize my runs/mfing and I just realized that I probably have to godliest LK map you can get. I got it on my 3rd roll or so too.
Been extraordinarily lucky 4 Ohms and 1 Sur within less than a 1000 runs - probably about 500.
Also found tyraels might :)
All that within less than a week in - thanks for the videos - truly bringing a lot of joy and fantastic content that motivates ppl to get (back) into the game and "study" it a bit more too!
This was one of the most useful diablo 2 farming videos i've seen. Thanks for the info✌
Thanks a lot for your videos. I'm playing D2 for about 15 years and I still learn some things here and there, pleasant feeling :D
Thanks for this guide. Yesterday I've found LO rune, and today SUR rune. After "only" LK 225 runs. :)
04:35 - he makes a mistake here which can confuse you:
He says "to skip running the entire LOWER Kurast Dock"
When in fact he means "to skip running the entire KURAST DOCKS", i.e. the town.
Thank you so much for this! I recently got back into Diablo 2 after about fifteen years and had no idea things like this could be done. Within a dozen attempts I got a layout in Hell with the two campfires right by the waypoint and I’m already finding runes far faster than I had been.
After about an hour of rolling for a decent LK map I got something amazing.
Two campfires
1 Campfire is 1 Teleport. The other Campfire is 3 Teleports away.
The 1st Campfire top right super chest is a Teleport away from the 2nd top left Campfire.
About 16 Teleports per run.
Like many here I played this game like 15 years ago intensively. The math behind this game and the efforts = rewards will be timeless
I watched the video, but perhaps I just missed it: Why can you not just save and exit after opening the final chest in LK? That would respawn you at the Act 3 docks, right, then you could just waypoint back to LK? Why do you have to take the WP to Act 4 before saving/exiting?
Edit: found my answer at 4:35
Thanks a bunch for this video. I have been playing on and off for nearly 20 years (before LOD expansion). Just started doing these runs on p7 a couple of days ago and already have Mal, 2 gul, vex, Lo, and sur.
My map is godly, but I dont use a sorc. I have necro with 40 faster run walk. Run time about 1 min. Use pindle to raise skelly and just run it.
thanks for the amazing job man, im brazilian and been in d2lod a long time, did more than 300 runs last week and the best rune droped was a vex, aiming for the 1000s! thanks again, big fan!
I've been playing a lot of pluggy for the first time. I used this video to find a 10/10 two fire map. The two fires and way point are all beside each other. No Bers yet though.
I think a quick note about cheap 200 FCR sorc gear would help. Arachnid mesh can be hard to find, but you can get to 200 fcr with a crafted caster belt. Here's a sample set up.
Weapon: Wizard Spike(so much res) / Suicide Branch; 50 FCR
Gloves: Magefist / Trangs Gloves; 20 FCR
Armor: Skin of the Vipermagi; 30 FCR
Helm: 20 FCR circlet
Rings: 10 fcr each
That's 140 FCR base. Then, with good enough rolls, you can get 60 more with a combination of Spirit Shield, crafted caster amulet and caster belt.
Boots are whatever. I like Aldur's boots because the fire res compliments the resistances of spirit nicely, the 40% FRW is a marginal speed boost for farming, and extra life is good because dying will really slow down the farming.
Oh, and it is possible to get 200 FCR without spirit, but then Arachnid mesh is necessary. Just in case anyone is playing vanilla single player.
Simon Joyce future video bud. It's planned but solid info and tips for those who want to set up 200 fcr build;)
Dbrunski my man! Followed this guide and got a Ber rune after about 15 runs!! Thanks so much! :D
Thank you! just started ladder and added this to my MF runs, did about 10 runs. got a OHM
Great polishing on the content man. Looks and sounds extremely professional.
I avoid having any music playing when doing these runs because I'm scared of missing the sound of a rune dropping.
Dbrunski125 first guy that pop up on YT and i didnt have to look for any others. Great guides and still apply to D2r
Been doing this using 2 computers and no plugy mod. Both computers use the same diablo install and play in single player mode. I use the "other multiplayer" "TCP / IP" options to mule. 1 computer hosts the mule game the other is the main account. I imagine I could 1/2 and half those roles on the 2 computers.
1 odd upside is the maps are all the same between mule sessions. So after run 1 of the maps, the paths to bosses are pre-mapped in the next sessions. "have to stick to the same mode though". The down side is of course, no use of ladder rune words, the improved stash, and other ladder play perks like bigger bosses.
[paragraph below isn't about the "same map between games" mentioned above]
Been reluctant to do the plugy gaming. Haven't seen any video posted by it's players extolling "safe files" for use. So I assume it's the risk of using the plugy mods. Certainly I've seen video's on get this here, install it like this. But haven't noted any of the videos saying. "I found safe files here", "I've never had an issue here", or similar quotes to the files being pointed at. Even better still would be a consensus by plugy players on where to get safe files. Any tips of that nature would be welcome from the host.
I WATCH ADS FOR DBRUNSKI!!! Ive never seen the actual rune patterns before so that is new information for me. No wonder Sur runes drop the most. I use my pally to run LK and i run the docks with vigor. I dont just search for runes, i pick up all charms, druid helms, rings and ammys. LK might be decent on BNET if you do them during baal runs. P8 count. you wont get realm down and you can get the last few waves and baal for XP. Another great video dude
thank you! i just strated MFing and wanted to farm LK efficiantly and this helped me really much!
If u have the time to pop everything in Lower Kurast on single player or battle.net i would do so most the high runes I get are not even from the super chests but come from stashes corpses etc same goes for charms jewels and occasionally gear that is of some value for example socketed or superior armors and weapons. but as stated in the video you can just focus on the super chests if you want to be way more efficient. As for me ill be making a sorceress this next ladder reset and will be farming lower kurast through too travincal for all the chests bodies stashes etc.
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you dbrunski 💜
Did some math out of curiosity using this video and your 10k lower kurast runs video and got this for runs per rune:
your runs vs calculated odds based on 63536 patterns and 6 chests per run:
pul 17 =588 993
um 8 =1250 1214
mal 10 =1000 728
ist 5 =2000 1560
gul 10 =1000 993
vex 5 =2000 1821
ohm 4 =2500 2185
lo 2 =5000 5461
sur 6 =1667 993
ber 0 =n/a 3641
Real question is what are the odds you missed some runes because those huge chest drops are annoyingly large due to not being able to see all the drops at once and tons of piles of gold and potions. Like how many of those drop patterns for high runes are patterns that have enough items to hide the rune? You got a bit unlucky not finding any Ber runes and on number of Sur runes.
Your lk videos inspired me to spend some time doing them. I have done several hundred runs, was it worth it for me? YES. I found a sur, a gul, vex, ist, mal, um, lots of lems, and a few good set and unique items. I didn't know two campfires can spawn, first thing I will load some new maps until I find a double. I consider myself a pro d2 player. I play hc only, I've played for many years but I honestly have never been the type of player that pays mind to extreme detail, like looking for the perfect hell difficulty map or paying attention to specific stats or rolls, or basing my play time on efficiency ..im the kind of player that just plays if that makes sense. This time around I have stood firm in my personal goal to NOT cheat, it IS single player after all. Last year when I came back to d2 I ended up duping items, runes, copy and pasting game files to cheat. Using atma for much of it. But no more, and it's much better because I got bored quick last time around with cheat runes I made duping via atma. Now my items, atma-banked runes, and runewords are legit! It felt good to beat hell on hardcore legit, i did a lot of mf for the gear needed to do so every milestone i got to. I did normal mephy runs at first, then normal baal runs for gear to start nightmare (vipermagi !!) , then nm mephy where i found my occulus, ready to start hell! Then i spent a long while doing hell andy , countess, and mephy where i found some of my end game gear like shako until i was ready to finish hell.
I'm playing D2R SP (after months playing only in Bnet) and finally reached Lower Kurast in Hell with my sorc. I rolled the map a couple of times and find a good map there. Now the real HR farm begins! xD
Such a detailed guide! Will reference back to this vid a lot. 👍
Fantastic video, this taught me a lot :D I have never built a lategame runeword, so Im gonna have to try this to achieve my very first enigma and infinity :D
What do the 5/6 difficulty and 7/8 difficulty mean? What do the numbers mean
I didn't understand this either, please someone explain
@@juanestebantorre6348 hey so apparently in single played if you type /players 5 then it makes the difficulty like there is 5 players in it
Hello. Does the rune pattern applies in each character or for the account as a whole when in SP?
The first time I tried this I did about 1500 runs with nothing better than Gul. Then I accidentally selected nightmare and had to reset my map seed. With the new map I got 2 Sur within a few hours of playing. Maybe the map seed affects which drop patterns are available.
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Awesome video and perfect timing! Working my way through hell now :)
is this applicable to D2R as well.
of course, its the same game.
i know MF doesnt matter for runes, but does it matter for charms? you can get a lot of skillers grand charms on LK super chests.. and i know for a fact that gold find does work on those chests.. so my guess is that MF works for charms too, does anyone know? i feel like i get more charms with MF.. not sure tho
just found this while researching d2r, link to your twitch?
Pro tip, if you are running Plugy, get a loot filter, it really makes it easier to spot those runes as it filters out a lot of the useless items dropping from the chests. Dbrunski has a video about loot filters as well so go ahead 😁
My advice for LK on bnet: open EVERYTHING there in full games, not just the super chests. There is probably like 100 containers in the whole area.
Yep. I found a shako in a basket in LK on bnet.
A couple of questions, why is two campfires as must? Is it a must becuse of time saving or is it a must to get the runes? Second question, why do you go to the pandemonium fortress in act 4 after each run instead of save and exit?
2 camp fires means 6 super chests vs 3 super chests with one camp fire. Over the course of say 1000 runs that 6000 checks vs 3000. Helps improve your odds a lot. Additionally, going to act 4 saves you from running the entire Kurast dock every time you make a new game. Again saving you lots of time over the course of many many runs. Hope that helps explain
@@Dbrunski125 Ah ok thanks! I just got hooked on you saying "must" as u need two campfires to get good runes, but i see, its a question of effectiveness when farming. But u still have to teleport to the waypoint, go back and then exit game, start new. Have u measured and compared time to run from docks by exit directly after opening the last chest? I have 30% faster run/walk and i think just exiting right after is faster, but hey i could be wrong :). Great video anyway! But damn, getting low runes all the time on players 8 so far :(.
How rare are the maps with 2 campfires on it, I can only find the maps with one campfire?
Well I tried like 5 6 times and I got double camp thing
Amazing video.
By the way, if you`re farming LK on a sorc, use telekinesis to open chests from the middle of the huts and to activate wps, it`s even faster.
Awesome video, perfectly clear and very much appreciated👏👏👏
Glad it was helpful!
What version is this based on? And can MF adversely effect drops? I understand probability don't guarantee drop rates, but I've done 600 runs and the highest rune I've come across is Lum. (1.14d, 146%MF). Video was crazy helpful to see though!
Should note. Players 7.
My current map is even better than the 10/10. Just got my first Sur rune on my grind for the first enigma. keep up the good work dbrunski.
Could you show an example of a budget fcr sorc setup for teleporting?
Thanks for the info! So what would be the best place to look for runes at bnet? Cows maybe?
Any advice on how to efficiently deal with the clutter to not miss any runes?
My advise is to use the Plugy mod. It hides most junk drops and gold less than 1000 by default.
Do you do the /players 8 trick every time you make a new game on LK or just once and leave it like the trick you showed to switch it? I am farming it atm and using the trick but wanted to ensure I’m not waisting time by doing it each time?
M B I was testing it based on what was dropping from chests, which didn’t seem to be as much as it did when I typed /players 8 each time. Hence asking D, who runs this a lot. Thanks for the info and the snide comment.
To avoid realm down you could probably include a Countess run (and maybe Eldritch too,) seems like it’d be efficient to farm runes/stuff.
hey, does /players effect runedrop for countess? if so which is best 7-8 im guessing?
P1 best for runes off the countess. P7 best for keys off the countess. Hope that helps.
As mentioned P1 is best for Countess runes, but just to elaborate since that's kind of counter-intuitive: the Countess's drop mechanics are specially coded to make her drop runes consistently like she does. This is unaffected by the /playersX command, but IIRC she's hardcoded to always drop two things, and /playersX does decrease her NoDrop chance for non-rune items. But you want her NoDrop chance to be high, because if she hits NoDrop she'll drop two runes. Lower NoDrop on the Countess = more non-rune options for the game to waste those two drops on.
I'm probably mistaken on some of the particulars here, so someone more knowledgeable about the game's code please feel free to correct me, but that's at least a quasi-explanation for why it's best to run the Countess on /P1 if you're farming runes :)
@@je7055 ty my friend
Does this apply to series x. Because I been doing this run for months and haven't gotten a hight rune from them. I normally farm them for gems and charms
I watched this video a few times over the last few years to keep me inspired when LK starts dragging. I play Super Casually (this isn't my main game, or even my secondary game) but my PLUGY is finally coming together for me. Guess I just wanted to say thanks, and for any disheartened farmers lurking out there, just remember: Dreams do come true.
There's one single player specific quirk to LK runs: loot tables seem to be connected to map seed. I noticed armor and weapon racks kept giving me same 4-5 item bases. So I turned on rerolling maps every game until I got white monarch from one armor rack and then I turned rerolling off. And since that I got Monarchs regularly. Quick google confirmed that.
Question, if MF doesn't affect the rune drops at all, then wouldn't it be better to minimize MF so chests don't frop a bizillion trillion items?
Oh, aight. MFing just improves the quality of items not the amount, my bad. Thanks bud
@@The_Aleph_Null I don't think so. If you notice, the chest always drop all blue or all yellow. The way this is rolled is independent of MF, I believe, and uniques can't drop from super chests.
I have done close to a thousand runs and the best I found is a fal rune... Mostly I get ral, tal and sol...does it depend on the LOD version?
The "Set Patterns" have changed from patch to patch, yes. There are a lot more high rune patterns on the current patch than in previous patches.
@@ferallemur I'm playing single player in 1.13c... any way to check which version is dbrunski is playing on?
@@dpranav42 I think the chests were discovered on 1.13, but the rune drops get a lot friendlier on 1.14. If you want to hunt high runes, it might be worth the upgrade (though I think that some mods, like PlugY, might be incompatible with 1.14).
With long load times in d2r, I wonder if just leaving game (in act 3) is quicker now as long as you have high runwalk?
Great info! I'm about 100 runs in! It's fun so far, I have an armor rack that consistently drops pally shields, I've gotten a couple decent high res ones, but mostly 8 res all. Another drops a shako like a quarter of the time, so I got like 300 mf to try and drop Harley! I'd re-roll if it weren't for that one shako rack, but it's a decent map so I'll stick it out for a few days I think.
Great video , thanks ! How do you change the players difficulty in single player though ??? Thanks in advance ;)
just type /players x with x=1 to 8, know that this works in pairs for drop rate, so players 1 and players 2 will be the same, 3 and 4 are the same, 5 and 6 are the same, and 7 and 8 are the same
yeah dbrunski should obviously have included this in his video lol.
what u on about lol, what is this 1-8 shite
@@mickster5859 they are talking about plugy mod command. Single player mode.
Hey Dbrunski! Any chance we could get a bnet LK guide? I'm farming it on players 1, with trav. I need a ber rune! I just found an um from a LK super chest, but I dont know how much luck I will have with finding 2 sur's. Do you know how many vex+ patterns there are in a player 1 game?
In my honest opinion and personal experience: Indeed this is the fasted area to farm high runes, as far as, you play on players 7 or 8, you run very fast on main super chests and sorounding camp fire chests and is important not to loose time by fighting as this seems to lower the drop chances. For me best high runes where droped from surounding smaller chests, tree logs, etc.
Hi is this for multiplayer or just single player?
My question maybe stupid, but:
If I enter LK on p1, clear area and then set p7, will chest patterns be set to p7 as well? I'm asking because enemies are not instantly boosted by p8 and I don't remember higher rune being dropped from chests than Pul. And I'm something above noob seeing how much do you know about D2.
can you share where you get the drop rates? its so hard to find full games on b net now.. i need to know drop rates of just solo farming, please? can you let me know?
When you spend a week finding high runes for infinity, but spend a month looking for the base.
@Neo Sannyasin Thats annoying for real :)
@Neo Sannyasin nearly dropped my CTA in a game with wrong password, was fun xD
Do I understand this correctly? Having a total of 65536 Set Pattern, 4 of which containing Lo Runes basically means that I have 4 in 65536 Chance of getting a Lo Rune every time I open up one of the Super Chests, right? A run consists of 6 super chests, which means that the odds of getting at least one Lo Rune in a single run is roughly 0,036%. This means that I'd have a 90% chance to get at least one Lo Rune within the first 6222 runs. One run takes around 30-35 Seconds...Which means on average I should get at least one Lo Rune after 60,5 hours. Fuck.
how do i re roll a map. do i have to reroll all maps or can i just pick one like LK ?
If you're in single player you have to change difficulty and then choose hell again and that will reroll the map
Really dumb question, but if I do these LK runs on Normal difficulty will I still have a chance to drop mid-high runes or will I mostly expect like ral runes and such?
Normal and Nightmare countess are going to be much better for you hunting those types of runes :)
@@Dbrunski125 I'm looking for high runes
I just rolled a pretty sick Lower Kurast map on the 2nd try, 2 campfires very close to the town portal. One is right next to it and the other one is almost as close.
I HAVE A QUESTION, Why do you play single player v.1.13 and not bnet. I like single player to, but I feel online when you get high level you have other options like PVP or farming etc.
Give me a detailed answer please sir.
It's a little late but a lot of "purists" play single player just for the challenge of finding everything themselves.
is it normal to do almost 500 runs and only get a mal?? and a bunch of low runes?
My brother and i are playing on single player with players 8 on, we arent getting anything higher then a lem, we have good maps with two campfires close, is there anything we could be missing?
Does this still work with patch 1.14d?
Hi, do You farm superchests in river of flames? Theres only 2 chests, but can drop up to jah
DB what is the "orange flash" that you speak of? I always waste too much time due to paranoia of not seeing all the drops, would be tremendously helpful if you could elaborate. Thanks!
The color of the runes letters are orange
Why not loot every single chest/rock etc in LK? i just did a couple of hours of farming there and found nothing in the superchests but 1 pul and mal rune from normal chests.
always spawns 2 points of torches or random?
Do the superchests in Kurast and Upper Kurast have the same rune drop-specs as those in Lower Kurast?
Great Video! Even some things i didn´t know like the patterns. Maybe include little tips in there e.G. "get enought keys beforehand" I think those small tipps are what can make the diffrence in a video. great Video overall and I will farm some myself now.
Do u think higher MF increases the chance to get the loot pattern where only rare items drop? I find it to be worthless when only rares drops from the chest, since it cant contain any charms. Not sure if it can still contain any runes, but so far i havent gotten any runes when it only drops rares
Edit: Charms do drop aswell when rare (yellow) items drop. It just seems to be super super rare. After about 1k runs total, I got my first charm when rares dropped lol
I was wondering for online farming were would be the best place.becuz the map change.
Don't think there is one in the same way as in single player. There are a number of lvl 85 areas (Dbrunski has another video on that), and that's where you can theoretically get "everything". So the strategy in multiplayer is, I think, to create a game, clear all those areas, and then create a new game. Lower Kurast is probably not one of those areas, since you can't manually change the players X setting.
a noob question but how do you "reroll" and "keep" a map? :)
as long as your on plugy if you dont change difficulty your map layout remains the same. so just choose normal or nm then back to hell to re roll a new map layout.
So, more MF won't cause item drops to be magical, thereby excluding runes?
false. When you pop a chest or kill a monster the game first checks if its a rune drop. If this fails then the game checks for items. Then MF is applied. Therefore MF does not affect rune drops at all.
@@WatsonOutdoor thanks! I have wondered about that mechanic for years.
Don't the superchests in Kurast and Upper Kurast have the same specs for runes as those in Lower Kurast?
So don't farm if you are playing d2r single player? I can't change the players level can I?
i have a question i hope you Can answer for me. How Can i optimize my LK runs with all the loot cluster from the super chests. I find its taking me a lot of time to click through all that gold when a chest pops with tons of loot, just to make sure i dont miss Any Runes. Got any tips?
This was very helpful! Thank you!
Is it worth running LK at Players 1?
how do you deal with the clutter on p7 setting? Always feel like ive missed a ber rune cause i didnt look properly!
I reloaded d2 because of your videos. I’m doing LK Runs found my first Ber yesterday and my second one today lol and I’ve yet to find an Um rune yet
This is quite different from console players for d2r... is LK still suggested for offline solo play for playstation?
Im playing d2 LOD 1.14d with plugy but my chest not reset after go to act 4? How can i fix ít?
Thankyou
what if i play online? it's impossible to du 100 non stop run with 5/8 players. Is it worth doing it alone? in 20 runs i got 13 runes and the best one was DOL
Love it!! Just found Ohm rune at players 8 =)) dont have nice gear yet, but im getting better and better, keep going with ur vids
Second Ohm Today omg lol !! =) i was thinking about cta, but im not sure now lol
malawiglenn - you answered it yourself, it doesn't matter if it's 7 or 8 players.
I used to play single player but once by mistake I clicked battle net. After that my game graphics have changed and game has become really slow in single player mode. Any solutions ?
I guess you downloaded the newest patch. You can go to the options in game and change the detail settings if your game runs too slow (which it shouldn't, unless your pc is from the early 2000s)
I really enjoy your video's, they are so useful
Im running on the xbox one and im dissappointed long load times, and when i hit the chests the loot takes a few seconds to load in which can result in monsters flooding in blocking my view :( i can be on the loading screen and my character can be fully loaded and monsters get cheap hits on me mainly duriel) why is it my parents old dial up dino computer ran like a champ compared to modern day 🤣
Is this worth doing on closed bnet ladder? I guess its only 1 player?
So you're seeing all the map always?
What about multiplayer? What are the drop chances for players 1?
Can only one campfire spawn on the lk map because I’m only finding one campfire on my map
nope you can definitely have 2 camp fires on 1 map :)
so if you are just playing solo this method is useless?